2004 Early Stage Finance Startup 
Feld Thoughts
JULY 19, 2018
In addition to our own funds, we are investors in a number of other early-stage VC funds as part of our Foundry Group Next strategy. “Historically, the $10 million valuation mark has been somewhat of a ceiling for seed stage startups. All the experienced finance people I know talk regularly about cycles.
Hunter Walker
JANUARY 15, 2016
Dogster launched January 12, 2004 (Happy 12th Birthday Dogster!) By the end of 2004 I had brought on two co-founders: John Vars – who is now the Chief Product Office at TaskRabbit, and Steven Reading took over Sales and Revenue. From the middle to 2005 to early 2010 the business was break-even or better every quarter.
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Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 13, 2011
In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. And especially if you are dealing with early stage firms where partners might have different areas of specialization but they might have a lot of connective tissue across things. RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I Brad’s start in Venture Capital.
ReadWriteStart
SEPTEMBER 3, 2010
When I came to Paris in 2006, I had a well-developed idea for a startup and nothing else. In that time, I've discovered that the startup scene is infused with passion, energy and a strong spirit of collaboration. Pamela Poole is a blogger, translator and tech writer, and founder of Francophilia.com , a social startup for Francophiles.
View from Seed
JANUARY 26, 2016
It’s become increasingly common for startups to raise several seed rounds, and this has led to a bifurcation in the seed stage between what are known as “pre-seed” (or “genesis”) and institutional seed rounds. Series A investors invested quite early, often before product/market fit.
500hats.com
AUGUST 2, 2012
It’s no coincidence we designed 500 Startups with these evolutions in mind, altho none of the required strategies have been easy to execute and we are still refining our approach. In short, we were a lot more geeky than the previous generation of fund managers , and we started blogging a lot about tech startups and best practices.
Hunter Walker
AUGUST 24, 2014
When Google went public in August of 2004 one of the first things I did with my employee grants was sell enough to pay off my student loans. In retrospect I lost a lot of future gains by cashing out too early but what I gained was more important: peace of mind in removing the only debt I’d ever carried.
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